Two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination at their party convention in Cleveland, Manafort was offering his former patron Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire considered one of the “two or three oligarchs closest to Putin,” “briefings” on the 2016 election race.

“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” wrote Manafort to an unrevealed intermediary in a July 7 email, one of the thousands that Special Mueller’s team seized during their recent FBI raids.

“We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success,” Manafort wrote in the 2005 memo to Deripaska. The effort, Manafort wrote, “will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government.”

While it appears the offer wasn’t taken, it just goes to show that the greed and corruption of Paul Manafort might be the key to unlocking the secret of what really happened behind the scenes of the 2016 election.

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Colin Taylor is the managing editor of Occupy Democrats. He graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor's degree in history and political science. He now focuses on advancing the cause of social justice and equality in America.

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